Jacub Vrana’s shoulder injury.

Info on line from various sources seems to add up to much ado about same old pain in his shoulder left over from previous years.

if so…

That is good news BUT he is likely being evaluated for corrective surgery and surgery of any kind is not good news. Apparently from more reading on line, minimal surgery recovery in the best case is a few months (enter non doctor disclaimers) . 

So either Vrana plays w/o surgery until some goon targets his weak shoulder or he gets the shoulder repaired. I’d bet the Wings will want any damage repaired before he plays and potentially makes things worse. The Wings weren’t going places this season anyway, so why risk it.

Let the competition begin for his spot on line 2. 

But maybe a Restricted Free Agent ? Hmm that again. Vancouver’s Elias Pettersson and Ottowa’s Brian ? Tkachuk are still available but costly in terms of compensation for an offer sheet. But rumor has it Ottowa is looking at trading Tkachuk. Perhaps a trade could be done with Pettersson ?

Too bad the Wing’s best trade pieces have both come up lame all of a sudden. Namely Vrana and Bertuzzi. No Bert isn’t injured again but his availability in Canada is zilch at the moment which takes him pretty much out of any trade picture. 

Time for another edition of Conspiracy theory 101. Do you think Bert or his agent heard that his name came up in trade talk hence the decision not to vaccinate ? So he wouldn’t get traded ? Hmmm. Doubtful but within the realm of possibility.

Back to reality. The Wings have no trade bait except for Larkin and prospects and I’d bet Larkin would be traded before Big Mo. but those are the two that other teams would want so I’m guessing a Wings trade is unlikely for the two remaining RFAs.

On we go into the weird 9 or 10 games in 12 days preseason, then a month before the start of the regular schedule. So if Vrana has surgery today….he might only be gone for two months of the season. That probably in the end is the best plan. If I can try predicting Yzerman That’s what I’d predict.